Clipper, Vol. XVII, No. 6, June 1960

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VOL. XVII, No. 6
MIAMI, FLORIDA, JUNE 1960
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Christened by Mayor's Wife
Jet Clipper Speeds to Record On First Flight to Brasilia; Ceremony Marks Service
Inauguration by Pan American of non-stop jet service between Brasilia and New York was marked by two major events as the big Boeing Intercontinental Clipper touched down at the new capital’s airport.
A record flight was established^ when the jet sped the 4,300 miles'
between New York and Brasilia in eight hours and 36 minutes. Previous elapsed time by piston-engined plane was 17 to 18 hours.
Christened Clipper Brasilia
Upon arrival of the flight a ceremony, attended by dignitaries of church, state, airline executives, the press and more than 1,500 spectators, watched Dona Coracy Pinheiro, wife of the first mayor of the new capital, christen the aircraft the “Clipper Brasilia” with mingled waters from Lake Brasilia and the Hudson River.
Following blessing of the plane by Archbishop Dom Jose Newton de Almeida Baptista, President Juscelino Kubitschek, of Brasil, was introduced by Vice President Humphrey W. Toomey, of Pan American.
Makes Courtesy Flight
At the conclusion of the christening ceremony President Kubitschek, his official party and guests boarded the jet for a special flight over Ilha do Bananal. During the trip the President occupied the Jump-scat in the cockpit and assumed the role of “tour conductor”, using the intercom system to describe the area over which the Clipper was flying.
On the record flight from New York, the Clipper was piloted by Capt. Frank M. Briggs, of Miami, Latin American Division chief pilot.
The same afternoon, the jet took off on its return to New York. Weekly jet flights will be made in each direction.
Travel Agents Laud Pan Am
Travel agents in Latin America agree that Pan American is doing much more for them than any other airline.
That’s the conclusion that a team of LAD advertising and sales personnel brings back after carrying a Pan American Sales and Advertising Forum to 521 persons, including 320 IATA travel agents.
Bringing the LAD message Round South America were Charles Larrabbee, agency, interline sales superintendent; Albert Cameron, J. Walter Thompson Company; Walter Turner, Division advertising manager; Thomas Zar-cone, Hertz Corporation; and Ar-mondo Castro-Verdo, Shine Hotels, Inc.
At each point, a slide film presentation was made outlining U. S. domestic Pan Am advertising designed to attract the U. S. traveler to South America and a summary of Latin American Pan Am advertising was presented.
In addition to agents, the program drew Pan Am, Panagra, and interline sales personnel. One meeting was held with airline per-sonnel, a second with travel agents, and in all markets a luncheon or cocktail party was arranged for travel agents.
In Pan Am Service 27 Years
Captain Maxwell Named LAD Operations Manager
Capt. James A. Maxwell, a veteran of 27 years Clipper cockpits and administrative posts, has been named
operations manager for Pan Division.
Maxwell replaces Capt. Oliver J. Studeman who held the post for 14 years and who recently was promoted to assistant vice president of the airline’s Guided Missile Range Division at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
As operations manager with headquarters in Miami, Maxwell will direct the operation and maintenance of planes, airport stations and navigation and communications systems throughout the division.
Helped Airline’s Growth
The new operations chief takes over at a time when the division is blazing new jet trails in South America and expanding its present jetliner services between the Americas and through the Caribbean area.
The work will have a familiar ring to Maxwell. He was in Miami in 1946 as assistant operations manager and helped in the planning and carrying out of Pan Am’s expansion program in Latin America following World War II.
In 1948 Maxwell became sector chief pilot at Brownsville and in 1950 was appointed sector chief pilot in Houston, a post he has held until now.
Maxwell has literally grown up with Pan American. He won his wings with the Army Air Corps at Kelly Field and served a year with
American’s Latin American
CAPT. MAXWELL
the Air Corps in Texas before joining the airline in 1933.
Flew Atlantic Routes He became a captain the following year and during the next several years racked up most of his Continued on Page 3
BET I COULD FLY 'ER, seems to be the thinking of President Juscelino Kubitschek, of Brazil, pictured in the co-pilot's seat of the “Clipper Brasilia." The big Boeing Intercontinental was christened after inaugurating jet service between New York and Brazil's new capital.
Speed, Noise Questions Answered
Clean Bill of Health Given Jet Age by Medical Director
The Jet Age was given a clean bill of health for passengers, flight crews, and ground personnel by Brigadier General Otis B. Schreuder, M.D. medical director of Pan American’s Overseas Division.
In a paper delivered at the Aero-^ space Medical Association meeting in Miami. Dr. Schreuder said that:
Passengers find jet travel more agreeable because of the greater speed and comfort, absence of vibration, decreased noise intensity, and better pressurization.
During a period when Pan American carried 136,439 passengers a total of 259,000,000 passenger-miles on jets, only one “medical emergency” occurred for every 2,677 passengers, most of a very minor nature such as a feeling of faintness.
Discomforts Called Few
No effect of jet flight upon pregnancy has been observed.
Reports of medical discomforts reported among crew members by lay journals cannot be substantiated by fact.
In 18 months of jet operations, no ground employe has developed a hearing loss due to high intensity noise, thanks to Pan American’s hearing conservation program.
Dr. Schreuder said that after interviews and observation, the Medical Department of Pan American has concluded that the actual mechanical piloting of commercial jets is no more fatiguing and possibly might be slightly less fatiguing than piloting piston-engined aircraft.
Fatigue Is Decreased
He pointed out that the jets require a greater degree of physical and mental alertness and that the pilot must be ahead of the airplane, but added that the fewer instruments, lack of vibration, decreased noise, and improved pressurization contribute to decreased fatigue in piloting the aircraft.
Early in the history of jet operations, there was a great deal of publicity about the effect of jet flight on stewardesses. These complaints, Dr. Schreuder said, have “largely disappeared due to the fact that these employes now have
become accustomed to the airplane.”
A study made by Pan American of the sickness rates of flight personnel flying the jets as compared to the sickness rates of those flying piston-engined aircraft showed that the rate of illness on jets was fractionally less than that on propeller aircraft.
Noise Problems Solved
Jet Age industrial hazards for ground employes do not vary greatly from these in other light industries, Dr. Schreuder said. The exceptions—exposure to jet blast, high intensity noise, and the ingestion characteristics of the jet engine — have not proven troublesome thanks to Pan American’s safety program which has familiarized ground personnel with protective techniques.
A well developed hearing conservation program has minimized the hazard of exposure to high intensity noise, Dr. Schreuder declared. The program consists of control of the noise at the source insofar as possible, indoctrination of personnel in the effects of noise, minimizing exposure to high intensity noise areas, use of personal protective equipment, and periodic audiometric evaluations.
Venezuela Honors Late Jimmy Angel
The discoverer of the world’s highest waterfall, the late Jimmy Angel, will be honored July 4 in Venezuela, site of the 3,212-foot-high Angel Falls.
The ashes of the American prospector and World War I flier, who in 1935 discovered the fantastic cataract while searching for gold, will be scattered by his wife, Maria, over the area where he landed his single engine plane.
Air - Truck Cargo System Established
Worldwide Plan Links Terminals In 79 Countries
A worldwide air-truck cargo system has been established by Pan American and Consolidated Freightways, the U.S.A’s largest motor and air freight carriers, Willis G. Lipscomb, vice president, traffic and sales of Pan American, and Parkman Sayward, vice president, marketing, of Consolidated, announced.
The truck-air system will link consolidated terminals in 145 United States and Canadian cities and its services in Europe and Asia with Pan American’s Clipper cargo flights to 79 countries throughout the world. The arrangement makes possible direct shipments with single documentation procedure to and from interior cities as well as gateway points on all six continents.
Publish Joint Tariff
Under the truck-air plan the motor freight carrier will receive shipments at interior United States points, handle the documentation and dispatch the freight directly to Pan American’s airport gateways on the East and West Coast, in the midwest, or to Houston for shipment to Latin America.
Pan American similarly will handle freight originating overseas bearing the responsibility for delivery to points within the United States. A through in-bond service will be provided for importers at interior U.S. customs ports.
Shippers, cargo agents and freight forwarders will have the advantage of dealing with a single company, preparing one set of documents and receiving invoices from a single source. The two companies plan to publish a joint tariff memorandum about July 1.
Door to Door Service
The truck-air system provides for door to door service, eliminating a series of transfers and additional handling at airports and truck terminals. All types of cargo shipments, prepaid, collect, and COD will be handled with the responsibility for currency exchange, import or export advice and other government formalities being assumed by the carrier that accepts the shipment. Both carriers will have the use of Pan American’s overseas facilities and Consolidated’s domestic network.
Inaugurated in anticipation of increased movement of cargo in containers and a closer integration of surface and air transport, the truck-air system in the future will employ containers suitable to both trucks and cargo aircraft. Plans call for containers to be packed by the shipper, with the cargo moving by truck in the same container direct to the aircraft and then to another truck at the destination.
New Horizons Nears Million Circulation
A new edition of Pan American World Airways’ best-selling travel book, “New Horizons World Guide”, has been published, bringing its total circulation to nearly 1,000,000 copies.
Reflecting the accelerating pace of international tourism, an entire press run of 100,000 copies was sold in eight months. The new edition of “New Horizons World Guide” contains travel facts about 92 countries, including coverage for the first time of Afghanistan, Poland, and Samoa. It is available for $2 at Pan American offices and travel agents throughout the country.